Definition of blandishment
: something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement —often used in plural … refuses to yield to their blandishments … — Irving Babbitt
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Pharma companies spend billions on TV ads, doctor blandishments and expensive salespeople to keep prescriptions flowing.
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Pharma companies spend billions on TV ads, doctor blandishments and expensive salespeople to keep prescriptions flowing.
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Pharma companies spend billions on TV ads, doctor blandishments and expensive salespeople to keep prescriptions flowing.
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Sift confectioner’s sugar into a bowl, whisk in lemon juice, add still more sugar to thicken: the blandishments of my loneliness are sweet and acidic, brushed on, carefully, with a fork.
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Origin and Etymology of blandishment
see blandish
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